Demand Nirbhaya—fearless—cities
<p style="line-height: 22px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Catalysing safe design for public spaces should be among the top priorities
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Round and round we go
The concept of Chakriya Vikas Pranali (CVP) can roughly be translated into English as "Cyclical System of Development". As with all translations, it is a poor copy of the original meaning. The
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Bangladesh State of Environment Report: The Monthly Overview, March, 2014
<p>With release of genetically modified Bt brinjal for commercial cultivation Bangladesh is first country in the South Asia to cultivate any genetically modified food crop. Read more in this March 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Bangladesh.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
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International Seminar on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development 15-17 June 2015, Bhutan
The World Energy and Environment Technology (WEENTECH) is happy to announce the International Seminar on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development, 2015 (RESD2015). The conference is jointly organised
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Pakistan State of Environment Report: The Monthly Overview, November, 2014
<p><strong>The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet in Pakistan, decided to lift the over two decades long ban on forest harvesting besides managing forests along scientific lines in line with a working plan made by the government. Read more in November 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan</strong></p>
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Desert under siege
The Thar of Pakistan is an arid region troubled by long spells of drought, rapidly falling groundwater levels, abysmally low literacy levels and rudimentary medical centres. But the crisis facing the Thar today stems from beyond all this. It can be traced
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Knocking strange doors
The study of sleep patterns in environments as wierd as outer space and underwater could be beneficial to public health in general
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Axe subsidy, not the bus
<p style="line-height: 22px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Supreme Court order upholds diesel price hike for bus corporations, but
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Back to basics
Every <i>taluka</i> in India can meet its own food, water and energy needs
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Carrying over
Solid waste management could benefit from adopting the traditional method of decentralised composting
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Old fronts, new frontiers
New areas are being researched in malaria control and knowledge in the conventional fields has expanded
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One step forward, two steps back
<p style="line-height: 22px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The initial phase of UPA II witnessed prolific rule making, but this
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Freewheeling down Dutch country
The bicycle is going places in the Netherlands as the Dutch pedal hard towards a clean option
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More of everything?
Increasing acid rain. Higher temperatures. Water scarcity. Shrinking farmlands. Reducing biodiversity. This is what the years leading to AD 2050 have in store for us
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Hook in the gut
Scientists are striving to develop a vaccine against hookworm that is rampant in the Third World
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Old wings and new flights
Engineers are hot on the heels of a new supersonic commercial aircraft, while the untiring wings of the good old Concorde receive ageing monitors
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Diehard
Toxic pesticides used by developing countries wing their way up to the Arctic region, affecting the Northern climes, and find their way into the human system through water, and some life-forms dependent on it. The situation is so alarming that some enviro
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'Coal will dominate at least for the coming 200 years'
ALEX C TOOHEY, a chemical engineer, is the chief executive of the World Coal Institute WCI , London. The WCI is a non profit, non governmental association of coal producing enterprises, with memberships from all the 6 continents. The WCI's mission is t
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On World Environment Day, a bike-a-thon calls on Delhi to “Switch on the Sun”
<p>Hundreds of people on 25 stationary bicycles switched on the sun on World Environment Day on June 5 at Dilli Haat in Delhi. Delhites came together and pedalled away to claim their right to sustainable
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In the pay of plastics
India s biggest public sector unit is out to ape the West s fashion for unsustainable living